Joaquín Torres-García

Uruguayan(July 28, 1874 – 1949)

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Works

Torres-García developed Constructive Universalism, a visual language combining geometric abstraction with pre-Columbian symbols and pictographs. His 1943 inverted map "América Invertida" challenged Eurocentric perspectives. He founded art schools and influenced generations of Latin American artists, with work held in MoMA, Tate, and Museo Torres García.

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Tres figuras en estructura

Race Car (Auto de carreras)

Puerto constructivo con cara

1946

Construcción (boceto para el mural de Saint Bois)

1944

Constructivo piramidal (La pareja y su mundo)

Joaquín Torres-García, considered the father of Latin American Constructivism, lived in Europe and the United States for almost 40 years before returning permanently to Uruguay. These travels exposed him to different modernist movements including Constructivism, Cubism and Neo-Plasticism, while he was living in Paris and New York. The period between 1926 and 1933 in Paris was Torres-García’s most mature, punctuated by his co-founding (with Michel Seuphor) of the renowned

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Artists in conversation